Overall New Zealand Scholarship results 2021

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2021 New Zealand Scholarship Monetary Awards

Award 2021 Awardees attained No of Students

Premier Awards

$10,000 each year for three years (for the very top 7-12 students) as long as they maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

A minimum of three Scholarships at “Outstanding” level.

NB: The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

 12

Outstanding Scholar Awards

$5,000 each year for three years (for the top 40–60 students) as long as they maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

A minimum of three Scholarships with two at “Outstanding” level, or at least four Scholarships with one at “Outstanding” level and a top two performance in at least one subject.

NB: The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.

 53

Top Subject Scholar Awards

$2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain at least  a "B" grade in tertiary studies

Top of Subject

 33

Scholarship Award

$2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain at least a "B" grade average in tertiary studies

Scholarship in three or more subjects OR Outstanding Scholarship in two subjects (with no third subject) in the same year.

239 

Single Subject Awards

A "one-off" award of $500 per subject (maximum payment is $1,000)

1 or 2 Scholarships

1813 

* In 2021, the 36 Top Subject Scholarship awards were achieved by 33 students. Of these 33 students, 23 received Top Subject monetary awards and the other 10 received awards in other categories. However, candidates receiving a Top Subject Scholar Award, who also achieve Scholarship in another subject, receive the Top Subject Award and, in addition, a maximum of one $500 Single-Subject Award.

New Zealand Scholarship awards by subject - provisional

Scholarship Subject Level 3 Cohort % Level 3 Cohort
Awarded Scholarship
(including Outstanding)		 Scholarship
(excluding Outstanding)		 Outstanding
Accounting 1975 2.78 48 7
Agriculture and Horticulture 618 3.07 17 2
Art History 719 2.92 19 2
Biology 10136 3.21 295 30
Calculus 9353 3 254 27
Chemistry 8701 2.33 176 27
Chinese 725 3.03  20 2
Classical Studies 3117 2.98  83 10
Dance 1063 0.94 7 3
Design 2408 3.2 70 7
Design and Visual Communication 1428 2.87 37 4
Drama 1876 2.99 50 6
Earth and Space Science 930 3.01 25 3
Economics 3101 2.23 63 6
English 16136 2.97 431 48
French 470 2.98 12 2
Geography 4365 3.02 117 15
German 148 2.7 3 1
Health and Physical Education 5191 2.43 112 14 
History 6550 2.79 164 19 
Japanese 514 2.92 13 2
Latin 42 9.52 3 1
Media Studies 2495 2.77 62 7
Music 1705 3.05 46 6
Painting 3242 2.99 87 10
Photography 3109 2.99 84 9
Physics 8636 3.01 232 28
Printmaking 397 3.02 11 1
Religious Studies 3011 2.89 77 10
Samoan 312 3.21 9 1
Sculpture 185 3.24 5 1
Spanish 371 3.23 11 1
Statistics 9985 3.06 275 31
Technology 4100 1.8 64 10
Te Reo Maori 1056 3.03 29 3
Te Reo Rangatira 191 3.66 6 1

The Technical Overview Group Assessment applies discretion in the setting of cut scores: The 3 percent criterion is applied with discretion of plus or minus 5 students. Cut scores are set such that all students at or above the cut score have demonstrated performance at the Scholarship standard.

*Note: There are reasons why the percentage of the Level 3 cohort achieving Scholarship is significantly higher for Latin than for other subjects:

  • Latin has a very small Level 3 cohort. The large proportion of the cohort awarded Scholarship reflects this.
  • Up to five candidates in addition to 3% of the Level 3 cohort can receive Scholarship in each subject. Because Latin is undertaken by a very small number of candidates and has a very small Level 3 cohort, this discretionary flexibility resulted in a high percentage of the Level 3 cohort receiving awards.

New Zealand Scholarship cut scores

The following table shows the range of scores for each subject. (The number of candidates is provisional, subject to reviews and reconsiderations.)

  Scholarship Outstanding Scholarship
  Score Range No. of Candidates Score Range No. of Candidates
Accounting 17-23 48 24-32 7
Agriculture and Horticulture 13-18 17 19-24 2
Art History 13-19 19 20-24 2
Biology 13-18 295 19-24 30
Calculus 21-33 254 34-40 27
Chemistry 17-24 176 25-32 27
Chinese 17-19 20 20-24 2
Classical Studies 14-19 83 20-24 10
Dance 13-19 7 20-24 3
Design 13-19 70 20-24 7
Design and Visual Communication 13-18 37 19-24 4
Drama 15-21 50 22-24 6
Earth and Space Science 13-18 25 19-24 3
Economics 13-17 63 18-24 6
English 13-20 431 21-24 48
French 13-21 12 22-24 2
Geography 13-18 117 19-24 15
German 18-22 3 23-24 1
Health and Physical Education 13-19 112 20-24 14
History 13-16 164 17-24 19
Japanese 18-22 13 23-24 2
Latin 27-31 3 32-32 1
Media Studies 14-18 62 19-24 7
Music 16-19 46 20-24 6
Painting 14-19 87 20-24 10
Photography 13-19 84 20-24 9
Physics 18-27 232 28-32 28
Printmaking 16-21 11 22-24 1
Religious Studies 13-19 77 20-24 10
Samoan 17-22 9 23-24 1
Sculpture 16-21 5 22-24 1
Spanish 15-20 11 21-24 1
Statistics 23-32 275 33-40 31
Technology 13-18 64 19-24 10
Te Reo Maori 19-21 29 22-24 3
Te Reo Rangatira 20-21 6 22-24 1
 
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